The street keyboard performer wearing a dog costume that I spotted about a week ago at Lausanne Flon. It was interesting and the music was good, but I don’t think he was actually playing music. His fingers looked pretty behaving separately from music. How do you think?

23 comments

1. Yep. Looks like a fraud.

2. The fingers on his left hand don’t move at all. 100% fake i‘d say

3. Accordions are commonly destroyed to promote this sort of fraud.

   https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/accordeon-tell-radio-tape-cassete-1218779788/

4. Plot twist: it’s a police man waiting for some traffic. And yes total fake accordion.

5. Report him to the busker’s association. This cannot stand.

6. Fake as hell ahhaha

7. I’ve seen this type of performance in Napoli as well. The dude was faking playing the violin. Very cringe.

8. He is also playing by the lake in Montreux, saw him pretty often there. He is a shame for all artists performers.

9. 100% not playing that. He’s not even pretending to use his left hand.

10. It’s a bear not a dog actually 🤓

11. This is a bettler dont give these fuckers money in swiss they only want more an wont leave you alone till they get more so dont give these rats even a penny

12. A few from the rom comunity are used to exchanging this outfit to go and “work” in the streets of Lausanne. It’s a fraud.

13. I think with my mind/brain.

14. Oh god this afternoon I shot his coin case cause I didn’t see it, it was a pretty awkward situation

15. Its obviously fake, this idiot didnt think this through before picking music that has fucking percussion in it when he clearly only has an accordeon alone lmao

16. I saw him too… and yes he fakes it :/ Pas très cool l’ours

17. If you are in Lausanne in the afternoon, there are lots of actually good buskers.

    1. A woman playing the sax and a guy playing the guitar. Great variety of music and very lively. Usually around La Palud.

    2. A guy playing drums with random plastic bowls and everyday items. He is amazing and it sometimes sounds like The Prodigy. He usually is somewhere near Coop City.

    3. Some students I’ve seen around with electric violins or cellos near Manor playing classical music.

    I’m sure there are more. I’ve heard great classical singers in St François too.

18. What does churros mean?

19. Is not playing music. He is part of a criminal band from east Europe and he is watching if the police is coming or not in order to let him folks know. It is very sad but it is what it is. He is not there for money

20. I wish street perfomers would be banned. Honestly, they are disturbing.

21. This guys scares me so much… Unleashed childhood trauma first time I saw him outside of manor. Never mind the clown making balloon animals in the summer 😭

22. his hands are in the right place, but he;’s not playing the notes. you can hear that he is playing along with a drum track so he has “discreetly” added the accordion in with the drums

23. Do people actually pay for this ? I went to Napoli and people actually pay those musicians to stop harassing them, a dude followed us for like 4 blocks playing Bella Ciao 😅